Amy Ruth

A classic example of something my husband always says to me when he discovers what I am doing.  Makes me laugh.  ”You haven’t made this recipe before and your going to serve it to guests, tonight?”  ”Well, yea!?!” is usually my response.  He rolls his eyes and just laughs at me.  Do you do that?  I am that fly by the seat of my pants girl.  How else are you going to find out if  the food is good, right?  

I’ve never made this  recipe before so there were some ups and downs.  As of this writing the cake has not been cut and tasted other than the crumbs and the remnants of cake batter in the mixing bowl.  Which by the way were really pretty good.   By all appearances the cake is nice and moist.  That is a relief with a dark chocolate cake.  

You know that recipe I haven’t tried before?  I’m sending it (minus one piece in the frig) to work with my husband so maybe his coworkers can hash out if it is something I should buy 8″ cake pans for future baking and refining.  Tomorrow I will post an update after I have a taste.  Yum!

Thank you to Stephanie of Confessions of a City Eater for choosing this wonderfully fun recipe this week.  Don’t forget to check out the cake art of the entire Tuesdays With Dorie Blog roll.  It should be so amazing to see all the black and white cakes.  The recipe for this weeks baking art is here and at Stephanie’s site.  All of the TWD bakers are baking from Dorie Greenspans Baking From My Home to Yours.  

Thank you for visiting here and I hope you enjoy your cake this week.  See you next week for Carmel Crunch Bars.

Yesterday, in the mail, I received the October issue of bon appetit.   Earlier in the week in Dorie’s post she referred to her article in this issue (page 80) giving us the “heads up” to watch.  Her word picture is about the French embracing their food and how it parallels with the structure or rules of their social graces.  More than that, of course there is a recipe for Bacon Cheddar Quick Bread with Dried Pears.  I think this may be the beginning of some new experiments at my house and as with many of you the making of more new  friends.  All I can think about is when her next book is revealed. Around the French Table  by Dorie Greenspan. The title being the big hint that she is taking us on a fantastic journey to her hearts home in Paris and all of France.    I am such a dreamer…I began to just imagine in my finite mind what she will bring to share with all of us.  Imagine, another blog!!!  Oh boy!!!  Think we will have a bit of a wait according to the article I read it is slated for 2010.  So we have plenty of time to get through Baking From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan.

Is there anyone else out there whose heart pittie pats just a little to think of the adventures she will translate, of once in a lifetime experiences?  Another acquisition I will look forward to adding to my collection.  Even more revealing is the idea that as with this blog experience I may even cook my way through  France with Dorie.  Fun Fun….Anybody?  Anybody?

As I was flipping through the magazine to find Dorie’s article I was transported in my mind back to candy store trips as a kid and then to present day baking Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops.  Low and behold, do you know what I saw?  Yes, of course you do.  Whoppers!  Beside each childhood favorite was the grown up chocolatier translation.  I thought someone out there in the blogosphere might want the “grown up” version of Whoppers made by Jacque Torres.  I could actually be sold on the dark chocolate version, maybe…  How about you?  It would be worthy of note if anyone chose to experiment with the big kid version.  Check it out.  I wonder if Dorie tried them in her baking trials??